Cloud costs going high?
ZEPHYR GLOBE Consulting redefines FinOps with innovative cloud cost strategies, based on value, delivering optimized spending and financial clarity.

Are These Your Challenges?
- Raising cloud costs.
- Lack of usage visibility.
- Engineering teams not aligned with Finance.
- Difficulty on connecting budget to variable cloud costs.
- Need to establish a FinOps culture.
Our services are tailored to your company needs.
Here is What We Can Do

Process and Tool Model.

CSP Negotiation.
Purchase tracking.

Equity Resources.
Recommendations.

Visibility
Dashboard and Analisys.
Showback and Charge Back.

Alerts and Monitoring.
KPI Tracking.
Our Services
Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit
Low Cost FOCUS™ Cost Management Toolkit empowers FinOps practitioners to visualize cloud spending without technical complexity.
Easily analyze costs, uncover insights, and align financial decisions with business goals. No installation hassles—Simplify cost management and take control of your cloud expenses with confidence and ease. Start transforming your FinOps strategy today!

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Execution
Acknowledgements

Gaurav G.
VP Infrastructure
“I am glad to recommend Anderson Oliveira for his role as the FinOps Senior Product Manager in my team. Anderson was responsible for cost optimization, budget management, and cloud financials for Farfetch. He played a pivotal role in creating the FinOps culture and executed several product initiatives for cloud cost management, resulting in substantial savings and continuous optimization for the organization.”

Luis D.
FinOps Director
“I had the pleasure of working closely together with Anderson at Farfetch on Cloud Finops.
Anderson consistently impressed me with his exceptional communication skills.
Anderson possesses a unique ability to clearly and effectively convey complex ideas to any audience. Whether it’s crafting compelling blog posts, delivering engaging presentations, or leading insightful status meetings, his proficiency in communication shines through consistently”

Alberto C.
Director Infrastructure
“During that period, Anderson’s main role was to improve the way we were doing FinOps.
Besides bringing more clarity to that topic, Anderson did an amazing job working with different stakeholders, including my self, identify were we should act first, were we would get more value first, identifying and pursuing actions to be done, and collaborate with different areas to achieve the goals..”

Rui F.
Senior Data Engineer
“I’ve worked with Anderson for the last couple of years, and I’m glad I did! He was responsible for the FinOps area and had a pivotal role in helping the company have a clear and precise way to correctly allocate hosting costs across its teams.
He easily managed communication between directors and the engineering team which I was part of, translating everything into well documented business requirements, which played an important part in our refinement and development processes.
On top of that, he’s been an active voice in the FinOps community, where he shows that he’s a born speaker and presenter.”

Hello, I’m Anderson Oliveira
I’m the founder and solopreneur of ZEPHYR GLOBE. I’m a FinOps Pioneer, with extensive experience on FinOps adoption, Cost Optimization. Public Speaker and collaborator on major FinOps publications.
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